Pope Francis Quotes

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

Join cooperatively with one another, put aside self-interest, and take on service to the public …

Whenever we make it over the threshold, we have to reach back and help others.

It's actually more than 700 case studies that show that, especially in times of crisis, we show our best selves. And we get this explosion of altruism and cooperation. This happens again and again after natural disasters, after earthquakes and after floodings.

There's always selfish behavior. There are lots of examples of people hoarding. But we've seen in this pandemic that the vast majority of behavior from normal citizens is actually pro-social in nature. People are willing to help their neighbors.

Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.

We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger.

If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.

In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

I like the idea of helping people help people.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.

It Takes A Village

Unless we labor to help others achieve a reasonable stake in society, we may find ourselves losing the society in which we have too great a stake.

Society is held together by trust.

… men who are governed by self-interest will combine, whether white or black, and the generous and selfless will similarly unite

Let's help each other. New York, because New York is first. And then after New York, and after the curve breaks in New York, let's all rush to whoever's second. And then let's all rush to whoever's third. And let's learn from each other and help each other.

Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

My hope is that the corona crisis will help bring us into a new age of cooperation and solidarity and a realization that we're in this together.

I grew up in a family that was committed to service, to reaching out and helping others. That's what inspired me to work in public service.